The process of socialization by which children come to internalize the values, practices and knowledge judged to be central by their own (sub-) culture or group. Enculturation, actually a life-long process, occurs both with and without direct teaching or instruction. Also referred to as acculturation, a term introduced by the anthropologist John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) in an 1880 report from the US Bureau of Ethnography, which he defined as the psychological changes induced by cross-cultural imitation. The first psychologist to write about acculturation was Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924).
See Socialization